Swarm is OpenAI's educational/experimental framework for multi-agent handoffs — minimal, readable, and a good way to learn the patterns before going to production with LangGraph or CrewAI.
Pros
- ✅ Minimal, readable code
- ✅ Great for learning patterns
- ✅ Free and open
Cons
- ⚠️ Not production-grade by design
- ⚠️ Limited tooling/observability
Use cases
educationprototypingmulti-agent
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